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Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a publicly held company that provides on-demand software for public relations, marketing and communications professionals. Their software provides news monitoring and management, social media monitoring and management, press release distribution and reporting and analytics, and includes a media contacts database. Vocus software is used by more than 4,000 organizations worldwide, and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, Maryland, but has offices throughout Europe and Asia. According to the Washington Post index, Vocus is one of the top 125 public companies headquartered in Washington D.C. and its suburbs.

PRWeb

PRWeb is a Vocus company, enables companies to generate an online visibility and publicity via online press releases, distributed by PRWeb to major search engines, online news outlets, and journalists and bloggers via RSS feeds and through the www.PRWeb.com website. PRWeb has more than 25,000 customers. Distribution partners include Yahoo! News, Google News, Topix.net, and Excite News.

History

2005: PRWeb expandes its platform with Social Bookmarking technologies.

2006: PRWeb is acquired by Vocus, Inc., for approximately $28 million consisting of $20.8 million in cash and 494,543 shares of Vocus common stock.^[1]

2007: PRWeb announces a partnership with the Associated Press that would allow PRWeb users to distribute their news to top US news outlets.^[2]

2009: PRWeb launches its online news distribution service in the UK.

References

1. ^ Washington Times, August 29, 2006: Vocus buys PRWeb to distribute online
2. ^ PRWeb Announces Media Visibility Package to Enhance Press Release Distribution

External links

• Vocus Official site
• PRWeb Official site

Business Wire

Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. The company distributes news via its own electronic network, NX, developed by its in-house tech team using XML/NewsML. It also has carriage agreements with major news agencies, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters, Thomson One, and some 60 regional news agencies to deliver content directly into their newsroom editorial systems. It was the first service of its type to put its clients’ news online, launching the company’s website in May 1995.

Business Wire provides direct news feeds along with photo posting to Yahoo! Finance and other information web sites. It offers preset and fully customized RSS news feeds upon registration (which is free). In 2007, the company added social media networking “tags” to news releases for services including Digg, del.icio.us, Newsvine and Reddit. The company’s EON: Enhanced Online News service provides a platform for news announcements utilizing a variety of Web 2.0 technologies, with search engine optimization features, social media tags to encourage online sharing of news, and interactive multimedia.

Working with stock markets and regulatory authorities, Business Wire is an authorized disclosure vehicle in the US and Canada (with news networks, EDGAR filings and SEDAR filings), the UK (with Financial Securities Authority-sanctioned (FSA) services), France (with Autorité des Marchés Financiers-sanctioned (AMF) services) and other European markets including Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In 2007, Business Wire established a pan-European disclosure service designed around the European Union’s Transparency Obligations Directive (TOD) requirements. In addition to fulfilling financial disclosure requirements, this posts full-text news releases directly into major professional and individual investor systems. Journalists can set up personal web, RSS and email news feeds based on their specific beat criteria.

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